Moudi

Meaning

Mūḍī is glossed from waḍāʾa — the root w-ḍ-ʾ (و-ض-أ), from which come *waḍīʾ* ('radiant, clean') and *wuḍūʾ*, the ablution that takes its name from making clean.

A Najdī form

The name's shape is characteristic of Najd rather than classical literary Arabic — one of a set of distinctly Peninsular female names, alongside Ḥiṣṣa, Nūf and al-ʿAnūd, that the classical dictionaries do not list as names even though their roots are entirely Arabic.

Note

Where a name is regional in form, this reference gives the root it is understood from rather than claiming a classical attestation it does not have.